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Is language only there to lead us back to the absence of words?

Master Kosen – Published on September 17 – teaching

Question

Words matter in this world: they can kill or enable
life. Which appears first, the word or satori? Is
language only there to lead us back to the absence of words, ku?






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Master Kosen’s answer

The two are not incompatible.

Kosen


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